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fascinating - Rahul Deodhar

intense - Deva Hazarika

Great story, and for someone with such a short attention span I'm glad I stuck with it. - Toby Graham

"“When I killed the first person, I was afraid, I was scared. I killed the first person just to see if I could. But there is an obligation to kill. If you don’t, they kill you. That’s why the first was very hard, because the person I killed was kneeling down begging, crying and saying, ‘Don’t kill me. I have children.’ That’s why it was difficult and sad. But if you don’t kill that... more... - bob

You've got to admit, there's really no profession sexier than assassin! - Gabe

@Gabe: Just don't leave the toilet seat up. - Dylan Parker

This is just an incredible read...... - Iain Baker

wow powerfully stuff, really well written. Original article from the Independent here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news... - Thomas Hawk

Yes, very sad. Sad that life unfolds leaving so many people in the world with a difficult choice and sad that the author has to immerse himself in these worlds to tell the rest of us about them. Must be very hard. - Peter Butler

Man, that's just heartbreaking. - Jonathan

That of course depends on what time of day you were looking. I was "on" from midnight to 2, but if you wanted an immediate response at any time yesterday before 7, you weren't going to get it. I did see your reshare in Google Reader though. Nice comments. - Louis Gray

Louis is ALWAYS on (Matthew takes over when he dozes :) - Charlie Anzman

Corporate e-mail can't die quick enough as far as I'm concerned. Let's start putting this stuff in (micro)blogs and wikis, people! - Daniel J. Pritchett

robert, we need to talk! this is exactly where our current products at ClearContext are focused, and the products we're working on now extend on them to address some specific problems around email companies are asking us to deal with that go beyond just helping individuals be more productive. - Deva Hazarika

Deva: we will talk soon. - Robert Scoble

I've got Mad Men to ease the blow... - Veronica

Same here. I keep trying to get into it and keep pausing it, getting distracted and forgetting to go back to watching it. Same thing with Mad Men. The only one that I keep coming back to so far is Entourage. I've got a bunch of Dexters in reserve. - Dave Winer

Come on Heroes is great. Yes I DVR and watch at my convience. Did you watch the other seasons prior to this one? - Admiral70

yeah, i've watched it from the beginning. it's just kinda lame now, imho! - Veronica

You should check out DAMAGES too. A masterpiece of a show. Season 2 starts in January. - Roger @ CineVegas

Yes of course I watched it from the beginning. One I can't wait to see resume: BSG. - Dave Winer

heroes is by far the stupidest and most horribly written thing i watch - Deva Hazarika

I love Fringe! But I have to admit, Heroes isnt as appealing as it used to be - Socom

Yes but the charm of Heroes was its mastery of HD and the audio. If you played it on a good sound system with a good HD screen, you could really have serious sensory overload. Now, it's pretty standard fare. Everyone else caught up. - Dave Winer

Heroes is a good show, but the writers try following too many different storylines during the course of an episode - Michael Garrett

I just couldn't stand the season opener. Characters become pointless when any of them can come back from the dead. - Ari Milner

I'm really wondering where the darn show is going - Mark Dykeman

Yuck^n - Cheryl Jones

Bleech. - Russellreno

nothing like a good healthy meal :D - Naor Mark

Ack! I'm gonna code just looking at that sammich. - Bill Sodeman

this is an eventual 'clogged artery' FAIL! lolz - .LAG liked that

these sound so much like a twinkie weiner sandwich with canned cheese on the top... Tho, for some reason it is reminding me of the winner of "sandwich of the year" a few years back... onion bahji melt sandwich - alphaxion

Want! - Morton Fox

That looks so disgusting ... take out all the meat and leave just 1 slice of bread with the cheese and onions and I'll fold it in half .... and maybe I'll finish it. eek! - Brandon

Mad the mistake of showing my husband this. We have all the ingredients & I have to pick up some turkey bacon today, soooooo...it looks like this will be our final meal. - Anika

Just get rid of the bread and it is perfectly healthy :-) - Steve Olson

I am so hungry right now :( - Brian

I don't know if I can handle this, but i'd love a bite. just a bite. - Melissa

pieces of it look good...not all together. maybe eat it as a family, with some greens. :D - dafire

nom nom nom nom - NoahDavidSimon

if you end up there, please stop and pick me up some shoo-fly pie and some vanilla ice cream on the side. Getting hungry just thinking about it. - Rob Diana

Rob, I was tempted to try the Shoo-Fly based on your comment, but I already hit the desserts three times. I'm stuffed! - Kevin C. Tofel

lol Jay - Zee.

Poor crayons... - Brian Johns

cool pic! - Susan Beebe

I'd like to shoot a crayon out of some air gun and then film it hitting a wall. That would be neat - Andrew Leyden

yeah, awesome idea Andrew - and sell it for millions!! - Zee.

I'll just say "It's art" I'd find someone to pay. Maybe after the bailout. - Andrew Leyden

The crayons had it coming. - Steven Perez

right place...wrong time... sorry crayons - Anthony K. Valley ©

Very cool, I love high-speed photography. - Kol Tregaskes

My feelings exactly, Baard. - Yolanda

Why? Why did you have to kill them!! Why!!!! <sobs> - Roberto Bonini

Had to do it. They went outside the lines. - Oldengrey (Jay)

haha +1 Jay :) - Zee.

NICE! - Lurking Grue

Not until now :) - Sally Church

As in, I grew tired of my scissors so I stopped cutting up with real friends and pressed the like button on Friendfeed friends? I think there is certainly a group of us with compulsive behaviors that makes us click where we shouldn't. I will plead guilty to pontificating pointlessly over trivial tweets, but can't quite recall liking an unlikable feed. - Phil Yanov

I've liked boring things, close enough? - Andrew Leyden

yeah, just this :) - Rah-PM 2012

Man, Robert stole my punchline. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I've been wondering why there isn't grass-fed milk and butter the way there is grass-fed beef. It turns out there is! - Paul Buchheit

For more great dairy, try this yogurt (both avail at Whole Foods) http://www.stbenoit.com/ - Deva Hazarika

This is all I drink. Straus is the best. - Sol

Straus also produces a line of yogurts. - Chester

I just threw up a little. yuk - Capn' One Eye - adrift

That is what I was thinking, too. - Robert Scoble

You'd think they'd work toward getting something relevant if you search on "cuil launch" - Michael Markman

It's the only thing that makes sense when you look at how bad the results are. You don't roll out something like unless you are just showing off the interface. - Kevin Bondelli

Not very good results at the moment I will say - shinchi from twhirl

It must be so hard to launch something in a realm where there isn't much tolerance/patience for incremental improvement. The bar in this space is high and consumers are very picky. Look at Yahoo. Their search is actually pretty damn good. However, they keep losing share. - Christopher Sacca

agree with Sacca - also, I thought the people behind Cuil had already sold some search technology to Google and hence they wanted to try it out on their own this time - so if anything they'd have more intent than others not to flip. - Adam Kazwell

100% agree with Paul .... what they have launched really sucks and I don't think I would be going back again to search .... Sacca seems to be right that the bar is really high in this space and whatever gets launched really needs to work well or it will fail - Raza from Alert Thingy

It is also strange that Cuil has no presence on twitter or friendfeed. There is no friendfeed.com/cuil. There is a twitter.com/cuil account but no twitters there. It would be interesting to hear from someone at Cuil on the FriendFeed/Twitter as to why they launched with the poor results... - Atul Arora

Yahoo's crawl speed is not close to GOOG. - Michael

It's something, and a reasonable first step. Yes, the results aren't that great but they seem reasonably comprehensive. Their make-or-break will be showing continuous visible progress - if they don't, sure, they're just a $XXXm dog and pony show for another company too scared of Google to see straight, but if they do improve, there may be potential for even more upside than that. - David Weekly

Google Killer? I do not even need to look to know the answer - Mike Reynolds

I'm not saying that the results are good, but people seem overly critical. I saw one piece on how their name is too hard to spell. But if they did become popular, this would not remain a problem. - Clare Dibble

It's embarrassing IMO. The results are thin and the images completely wrong. Not good is one thing ... Cuil seems a cut below not good right now. - AJ Kohn

There results aren't -bad- but they are in no way great. Worse yet, anytime you start throwing around X-killer, you are pretty much setting yourself up for destruction. - Steve Spalding

can a startup beat google with a link-based algorithmic search engine? msft's cashback.com is an example of changing the game. trovix.com's deep semantic indexing is changing the game. same for thefind.com. mahalo human-powered engine is too. Who else? - Tim Connors

Paul, maybe they launched because they believed gathering data and feedback from the public would help them improve their ranking and other aspects of their service? I don't think that their ranking is anywhere near as good as Google's right now. But, there's no a priori reason to believe that Cuil ranking won't improve quickly. Anna, Russell, et.al. are actually pretty sharp. I for one am excited to see another player in search with new ideas about infrastructure and user experience. - Kevin Scott

They of all people should have known to release with fast results (latency).. The fact that they did not surprises me, and had the exact effect I would expect.. I have no plans on going back, good results or not.. :) - Derek Collison

Does "launch early" work for search engines? Don't think so.. - Jing Lim

One of the nice things about Google is the speed they index. Consider the indexing of a blog post made yesterday: Google already picked up the post and Cuil has not. http://www.cuil.com/search... VERSUS http://www.google.com/search... Google shows 367 results and that is trouble for Cuil. They'll need to work on that quickly to convince people they are being serious. - LPH™ and his dog P™

it's about as useful as Archie(Gopher ref) - clarke thomas

considering I got server overloaded errors when I tried it at first, I'd have to say launching early was a big error in judgement. - sean808080

The indexing speed of Google and other search engines is pretty good, but another area that needs fixing is when content moves. It takes a long time for Google to catch up. Example: Let's say you move your blog or an early well-praised site goes stale, many search engines have trouble adjusting their rankings to the new site or to push down the older one. - Loren Heiny

Trouble is that indexing and ranking are closely linked. If all you return is a hitlist there's no good ranking that can be done. Can't yet tell whether they're in that situation. What I don't get is why the rush to launch now. - Daniel Dulitz

I read similar thoughts on Reddit yesterday and they made some sense... is there any chance all the negative buzz right now is going to hurt their buyability though? - Philipp Lenssen

IMHO there have to be better ways to show off your very own crawling+indexing technologies than opening up to the public and getting thrashed for not delivering what people expect when you dub your service search engine. I have a hard time believing that the cuil/cuill guys did not know what they were doing though ... Were they pushed to release by financiers? Were they in dire need of usage data? - Mustafa K. Isik

I do think they built Cuil to be bought. The reason they launched is they hoped their valuation will go up with all the press blitz... Which seems pretty well planned.... I think they went overboard selling themselves to the press and did not expect some of the back-lash. Of course, the saying goes - "All press is good press :)". So who knows this might indeed increase their valuation to 100s of millions :). It all depends on what the folks over at MSFT think/know about search :)) - Bindu Reddy

someone cough microsoft cough - Sarah Perez

M$ bait! ah ha!! Bindu and Sarah, you're on to something there!! - Susan Beebe

I liked this thread so much that I blogged it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Erick Schonfeld

As of yesterday, they didn't even have their own name indexed: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Brady Brim-DeForest

actually, they are off to a decent start. They have a nice interface that needs work, and some results are good and many others bad. I can tell you it takes about a year to getting your feet under you and figure out where you can fit in the search ecosystem. They are funded for a three year run it seems, so I would give them a year and see where the product is at. - Jason Calacanis

grabbing contextual images process is too weird! (o_O) - Pınar Yanardağ

great discussion. the more I've read about the various GRAVE screw-ups (with porn images being linked to some people's bios, etc.), the more I tend to agree that they must have known that things weren't ready. It just feels too much like a prototype... Thus the buy-out scenario seems plausible. Who knows, buying their indexing technology could actually give a boost to MSFT or even Yahoo, given that they have a hard time keeping up on the tech/scale side of search. One thing we do know is that Google... - Alex Schleber

... isn't going to buy them :) I wrote a post on the branding aspect of the Cuil debacle earlier today -> http://businessmindhacks.com/post... but now I'm not so sure anymore if they were even serious about the whole thing. Maybe they're having a hearty laugh right now that no one is getting the joke. If they are serious though, it's a horrible launch and horrible branding. - Alex Schleber

Is it possible that they might be taking advantage of the disconnect between mainstream and social media? Cuil has made it in the news but to what extent has the negativity made it to the mainstream? If people get their news outside of the social media circle (which, as we are all quickly discovering, is a vast majority) and only hear that "Google killer Cuil has launched today" but... more... - Derick Valadao

me three. - Robert Scoble

Same here. - James Hull

Today is dedicated to Marc. He helped get me my first paid blogging gig and now our blog is part of Om's network. Thanks Marc. - Kevin C. Tofel

me 2 - Peter Dawson

@Kevin he is smiling today. - Steve Rubel

Steve, I think you're right. I hope he knows the profound influence he had on so many people. I'm humbled to call him a friend. - Kevin C. Tofel

I miss him too! I was talking about him at dinner tonight. Gnomedex is coming up and I was thinking how great it was to see him last year at the event. I was so lucky to spend time with him. - Betsy Weber

Now you know why Marc has a big thumbs-up wherever he might be. :) - James Kendrick

yeah.... me too. i think about him when Gnomedex, CES and DEMO conferences roll around. He was a true gentleman and a scholar. still have him on my skype..... every now and then i think of sending him a note. - Jason Calacanis

Aaron: you were the last person he tweeted as well... as I'm sure you know. - Jason Calacanis

I had the good fortune to work with Marc's daughter Rebecca at PR Newswire. Rebecca and I set at adjacent desks and she was very helpful to me. I never had the good fortune to meet Marc but truly enjoyed working with Rebecca. It's nice to know that this man who resided in the place I now live is so well remembered. - James

it's just that I go back there about once a week to add friend requests on the site and for some reason today it just kind of stuck more than usual. Didn't get that barrage of widgets being shoved down my throat for some reason. Then again, maybe it's just because an old high school friend added me today and so I went down that rabbit hole for 20 minutes or so. Still feels like I'm losing my mind for spending time on that site. Plus I needed to get Gabe's email address there and that felt easy there. - Thomas Hawk

flip flopper! make up your mind lol - Hao Chen

A high-school friend from 26 yrs ago just found me on LinkedIn. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Classmates seem to be good "white pages" websites. I've been reconnecting with many old friends/Acquaintances on Facebook & LinkedIn. - Mitchell Tsai

Facebook is great for a certain kind of social networking. Its a different beast to FF but still a tremendously useful service - Jamie

i had a flurry of high school friends i hadn't talked to in 15 years join up in last few weeks. i think the main draw now is to see if exes are fat. - Deva Hazarika

Facebook is great for people who you actually know and care about what's going on in their lives. The widgets are damn annoying, but I seem to have killed most of those now that I can turn off the notifications, and consequently it's back to what I originally liked about it - it's a great way to stay in touch with friends. - Eric P

Deva: My high-school classmates (1982 Kent, Ohio) are so much fatter and out-of-shape than my college classmates (1986 Boston). High-school ones look seriously middle-age. It's sad how fat the US has become. Although US median age has hit 38.1 https://www.cia.gov/library..., so as a mathematician I think those of us 39+ are "old". P.S. Grandma just hit 102 this year... - Mitchell Tsai

i'll never use a facebook or myspace! yuk - orionstarr

wondering if there will be a mailing list to subscribe to so we can track the progress :-p - mike "glemak" dunn

mike, i think we'll start with a mailing list, wiki, rss feed, friendfeed room, and twitter updates to keep people up to date on IO research!!! for people interested in learning more, please visit the IORG website - http://www.iorgforum.org/ - Deva Hazarika

omg, Mark - hilarious! - Sarah Perez

I like Mark's comment lol - Corvida

quote tumbled - Michael W. May

Mark - you win today. - Yolanda

Thank you, thank you: if you catch the 5:00pm show, I'll be spinning off sonnets and quoting MacBeth! - Mark Trapp

what 30/hour API call limit? - Jeremiah Owyang

can you think of a single other example of a site/service/product/company so broken re: the core of its offering, yet continues to be the hottest thing in town that users give chance after chance after chance to? i've been unable to think of another. - Deva Hazarika

@Deva: Microsoft Windows - Louis Gray

It's happening. I didn't want it to, but it's happening. Twitter is fading in our memories slowly but surely. - Bwana ☠

Deva: Tivo, Network TV, Cable TV, DirecTV - Mark Trapp

finally there is a friendfeed iGoogle gadget, so i can do everything from one spot!! - Nathan Eckenrode

Deva: Internet Explorer - Morton Fox

@mark: tivo, really? i was a very early adopter and it always worked great for me. - Deva Hazarika

@Morton: people still give chances to IE? Everyone I know gave up years ago - Trent Olson from Alert Thingy

I'm kinda agreeing with Jeremiah. It also gives an opportunity to regroup - Dennis Howlett from twhirl

I'm thinking more from a business model standpoint. Has Tivo ever had a profitable quarter? But feel free to take it off my list: you have more than enough examples :-) - Mark Trapp

You're better off migrating over here - Outsanity

@louis: solid answer. so part ii is, what sort of switching cost for people is recreating their network of followers elsewhere? i think the switching cost for twitter is closer to friendster than windows - Deva Hazarika

Twitter will probably keep on stressing until they've replaced their architecture. I'm not giving up on Twitter because it's an awesome service. - Dewald Pretorius

Trent: IE's market share still is over 50% for IE6 and IE7 combined: http://www.w3schools.com/browser... - Morton Fox

Appropriately timed for this discussion: "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! We'll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon." - Deva Hazarika

Andy, it's easy, I just tweet "follow me on Friendfeed" Many of those twitter followers came from my blog, where I did the same thing. - Jeremiah Owyang

From a designer's perspective, IE7 isn't so bad. IE6 is the real problem. - Shey

@Andy C - I would think a series of tweets would work. Tell 'em that you're over on FriendFeed, to sign up if they haven't already and provide your FriendFeed URL so they can subscribe easily. - Hutch Carpenter

reason i asked my q above was that twitter seems to be defying all the rules when it comes to customer retention (and definitely for a startup) - Deva Hazarika

was gonna move my network over here as well, but twitter's down and i can't access my followed/followers lists, so i guess i'll stay with twitter. brilliant lock-in strategy imo! - Deva Hazarika

@Deva - you're right. You're asking a great question It reminds me of why AOL survived its breakdowns in the late 90's. You had your email with AOL, and getting everyone to switch to a new email was painful. AOL was also a great experience at the time for a lot of folks, much like (when working) Twitter is today. - Hutch Carpenter

To move twitter friends here try Ben Gracewood's app: http://internetducttape.com/tools... uses Google's Social Graph API, and reportedly works on Linux with Wine. - Benjamin Kudria

I just did what Hutch suggested. I have no patience it seems. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Twitter is ALWAYS stressing. - Mack D. Male

I think that you should copy your network here instead. moving implies you put all your confidence in this ff. if you value your community, don't fence it in. - william douglas watson from twhirl

I think that you should copy your network here instead. moving implies you put all your confidence in this ff. if you value your community, don't fence it in. - william douglas watson from twhirl

its becoming ridiculous - Jamie

Word, this is really starting to get old. - Josh

i wonder if the majority of twitter users use it simply for sending and receiving asynchronous updates and never for interactive conversations. if they do that and use a client other than the twitter website, most times they would have no idea there were ever any problems - Deva Hazarika

what do you think of my idea to go cold turkey on FriendFeed, etc. - Susan Beebe

question: is that humanly possible? - Vincent from twhirl

@Louis - LOL..ok, but why not? - Susan Beebe

Don't do it because... 1) You'll be uninformed and out of touch. 2) You'll be missed. - Louis Gray

I'm going to interpret Louis' cryptic remark as meaning that if you do it, you might like it. And we can't have that! - Phil Glockner

right there with ya, Susan... I may do the same this week... - Shawn L. Morrissey

Question: Why? If you feel overwhelmed, spend only 30 min or an hour or so. So much cool information comes out of the web daily that I'd hate to miss it. Block out the noise, and you truly can see some neat things every day. - Bartek Ciszkowski

Awww how nice!! You guys would miss me (teary eyed smile!)... and YES way un-informed... Heck FriendFeed could go from ROOMs, to HOTELS to CITIES in only 3 days! yikes ...i'd have a gazillion posts, likes and comments to catchup on! impossible! - Susan Beebe

We're going camping tomorrow so won't be online hardly at all until Friday. Good job there's slandr and FFtogo ;) - Colin Walker

And I should point out I had my response up before Susan had hers. No points for speed? - Louis Gray

@Louis - your comment was up there like lightening... for a second there i thought my internet connx was slow or something...but you my dear LIVE in FF and are ON top of everything! super fast wow! - Susan Beebe

Do it! - Todd Jordan

you can't do it. - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Once again, another instance where I like the question but think that I am in fact relaxing whilst leisurely surfing thru the noise of Friend Feed. I all ready found out two really cool things. In any case, enjoy the long weekend! - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

Recreation! Reboot. Do it. - Brian Carter

OMG you guys know me too well already!! LOL this is funny! ok, maybe 3 hours instead of 3 days? huh? thoughts? - Susan Beebe

You can do it Susan! Just pretend that when you're not using the internet, no one else is either! Works for me, hehe ;P - Alana Taylor

@Alana - smart... just pretend...sorta like pretend when twitter is down...can't post anyway, right?! - Susan Beebe

Come on people, we have to stop once in a while!! :-) - Mary Anne Davis

NO! You'll be so disconnected! Just think of the unread items you'll have when returning. - Brandon Titus

laughing at all these comments and replies...there's a mixed feeling here; some say DO IT others say NO. And Phil Glockner has an excellent point, I "might like it"! - Susan Beebe

I went cold turkey for one day on Twitter. I think you should do it. It'll be a great experience to blog about. - Corvida

wow...good luck with that :) - Shey

@Cordiva - what did you learn while off of twitter 1 full day? - Susan Beebe

Coming back to Google Reader after a weekend away is a daunting task. - Kevin Bondelli

I went cold turkey on my RSS reader for 30 days. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. - Daniel Rothamel

I'm so used to my current Hyper-connected lifestyle that when I go to work and do without for half a day - I don't feel I can work to my fullest (despite doing more than most around me) - CannonGod from twhirl

Check out my post on being offline for three weeks: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008... - Deva Hazarika

wow, 3 weeks offline?! gotta check that out... - Susan Beebe

Cm'on people. I don't understand the comments of not being on. - Dave Ploch from twhirl

When folks talk like this, it sure sounds like an addiction. Of COURSE you can live without being hyperconnected. You can even live without RSS feeds, email, and even a phone. A long time ago, we used to call that a vacation - 2WheelTech from twhirl

To be HYPER-CONNECTED or NOT to be? hmmm... that's the question of the day. And yea, "vacation" sorta does come to mind.... I remember that word! - Susan Beebe